Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:12:31 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Rohit Panda <prohit99@yahoo.com> Cc: jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com, mertz@gnosis.cx, lee@uk.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation problem Message-ID: <20010827121231.C2218@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20010827063549.32524.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com>; from prohit99@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:35:49PM -0700 References: <20010827063549.32524.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:35:49PM -0700, Rohit Panda wrote: > > hi , > > i was using linux and a great fan of it.Then i heard about this > wonderful OS called FreeBSD and wanted to try it out.i thought to install > it via FTP. My E: drive in my windows machine is the place where i want > to install FreeBSD(i have formatted my E: ,but iam getting the chance > to fdisk because Sysinstall is not running). But iam facing a problem > during installation.i have made the images of the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp > from windows using the utility fdimage.Then i booted from the kernel > image floppy .Everything goes fine and after that when i put the other > floppy and hit enter it says " zf_read:unexpected EOF ". Then it continues > with the kernel configuration.Once i teied to configure and the next time > i skipped,but after that comes the problem.after it probes it says Please wrap lines at 80 or less characters in the future. The problem you are seeing is most probably a corrupted floppy disk, or a corrupted image. Try writing the mfsroot.flp image to another disk, then if this fails, try downloading mfsroot.flp again. Oh, and btw, posting to freebsd-questions would have been *quite* enough :) G'luck, Peter -- This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox, but it is lying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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